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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

10 Most Famous Space Missions

Mission to space has tested the mettle
of human capabilities and has proven to be one daunting task. Man’s
eager desire of exploration and urge of answering ”Are we Alone ” has
lead to some of the most extraordinary missions into space.

Here we have compiled a list of the 10 most famous space missions ever flown which have led to some unimaginable discoveries.

Yuri Gagarin

The very first triumph of space sciences came when Vostok-1 explored the unknowns of space on 12th April 1961. Yuri Gagarin’s 2 hours flight into space opened new horizons in development of space research.

Neil Armstrong

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”, the most famous words of the 20th century when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon .20thJuly 1969, was considered to be the cornerstone of developmental progression in this field.

ISS Launch

The restlessness caused by the ambition and strong thoughts of the scientists lead them to work on ISS in 1998.In its microgravity environment in scientists conduct experiments in various fields of life. The ISS has been continuously staffed since 2 November 2000.

Apollo 13

The Apollo 13 mission was launched on
April 11, 1970 from Kennedy Space Center. This mission was planned as a
precision lunar. After about 56 hours of flight due to fault in oxygen
and generator module mission was aborted and only few scientific investigations were carried out.

First STS Mission

STS-1 was the first space shuttle
program launched on April 12, 1981. It traveled 1.074 million miles and
orbited the Earth 37 times during its mission.

Challenger Crash

There have been a number of significant
accidents in the history but the incident on January 28, 1986 of
challenger space shuttle shatter the axis of NASA. Challenger exploded
73 seconds after liftoff, killing all 7 crew members.

Columbia Crash

The Space Shuttle Columbia was the first
space worthy shuttle in NASA’s orbital fleet. It was destroyed during
re-entry over Texas on February 1, 2003 after a hole was punctured in
one of the wings during launch, 16 days earlier. All 7 crew members
died.

Last Discovery Mission

Space Shuttle Discovery’s last mission
into space was to deliver Pressurized Multipurpose Module (PMM) Leonardo
and the ELC-4 to the International Space Station.

Hubble mission

Nothing has explored our universe better
than hubble telescope. After the launch of hubble in 1990, its has
provided astrophysics with enormous details of our universe and has even
helped them to calculate by which rate our universe is expanding.

Last STS (Atlantis) Mission

For the last time, the US Space Shuttle
has approached the International Space Station (ISS). Following a
dramatic launch from Cape Canaveral last week that was witnessed by an
estimated one million people.